Marano na ziemi. O jeszcze innej inności Piotra Sommera
Marrano on Earth: Another Otherness of Piotr Sommer

Summary/Abstract: Lipszyc explores the “Marrano” aspect of Piotr Sommer’s poetic and essayistic work. The starting point is Jacques Derrida’s essay Monolingualism of the Other, where Derrida outlines his understanding of Marranism and the condition of localised non-belonging. Derrida’s perspective allows Lipszyc to describe the traces of Judaism in Sommer’s poetic work – which are key precisely because they are no more than traces. Most of all, their presence determines the specific status of “suburban” outsiderness. Sommer’s essays also build on such a defined, eccentric position. Here he traces and foregrounds analogous perspectives that focus on the singularity of the subversive voice. Ultimately, his strategy of critical reading can be identified as Marrano vocal deconstruction.

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